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15-letter words containing b, r, a, n, y

  • primary rainbow — the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.
  • put years on sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has put years on someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much older.
  • pyrimidine base — any of a number of similar compounds having a basic structure that is derived from pyrimidine, including cytosine, thymine, and uracil, which are constituents of nucleic acids
  • radio sono-buoy — a buoy equipped to detect underwater noises and transmit them by radio
  • recognizability — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • reconcilability — capable of being reconciled.
  • remembrance day — (in Canada) November 11, observed as a legal holiday in memory of those who died in World Wars I and II, similar to Veterans Day in the U.S.
  • right-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the right, or starboard, side.
  • roundaboutility — roundaboutness
  • rubaiyat stanza — a quatrain patterned after those in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, of iambic pentameter and rhyming aaba.
  • salisbury plain — a plateau in S England, N of Salisbury: the site of Stonehenge.
  • sibling rivalry — the feeling of competitiveness that often exists between brothers and sisters
  • small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
  • subsidiary coin — a coin, especially one made of silver, having a value less than that of the monetary unit.
  • substitutionary — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
  • superabundantly — very or too abundantly
  • test ban treaty — a treaty which bans nations testing some or all types of nuclear weapons
  • transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • translatability — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
  • tubal pregnancy — pregnancy that grows in fallopian tube
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
  • urban sociology — the sociological study of cities and their role in the development of society.
  • urinary bladder — a distensible, muscular and membranous sac, in which the urine is retained until it is discharged from the body.
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